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	Guy de Maupassant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maupassant was born at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France.
		The Maupassants were an old Lorraine family who had settled in Normandy in the middle of the 18th century.
		Maupassant is one of the fathers of the modern short story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maupassant (973 words)

	Guy de Maupassant - Books and Biography
		Maupassant's first novel was UNE VIE (A Woman's Life, 1883), a naturalistic story about the life of a Norman woman, whose kindliness is her strength but also a vice.
		Maupassant describes two caretakers, living in the French Alps in a remote inn, which is surrounded by snow six months and unreachable.
		Maupassant's style has been imitated by countless writers and his influence can be seen on such masters of the short story as Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry.
	www.readprint.com /author-61/Guy-de-Maupassant (1450 words)

	Guy de Maupassant Collection at Bartleby.com
		Maupassant’s vision was of solid superficies, of texture which his hands could touch, of action which his mind could comprehend from the mere sight of its incidents.
		Maupassant’s style and treatment of subject resemble those of Flaubert in classic simplicity, clarity, and objective calm.
		Maupassant is a modern exemplar of traditional French psychological realism; he portrays his characters as unhappy victims of their greed, desire, or vanity but presents even the most sordid details of their lives without sermonizing.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Maupassa.html (167 words)

	Guy de Maupassant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (IPA:) (August 5, 1850–July 6, 1893) was a popular 19th century (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) writer.
		Maupassant was born at the (An impressive country house (or castle) in France) Château de Miromesnil, near (Click link for more info and facts about Dieppe, France) Dieppe, France.
		The Maupassants were an old (An eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits) Lorraine family who had settled in (A former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie) Normandy in the middle of the (Click link for more info and facts about 18th century) 18th century.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guy_de_maupassant.htm (993 words)

	Guy de Maupassant - Biography and Works
		Guy de Maupassant was probably born at the Château de Miromesniel, Dieppe on August 5, 1850.
		Between the years 1872 and 1880 Maupassant was a civil servant, first at the ministry of maritime affairs, then at the ministry of education.
		On January 2, in 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died on July 6, 1893.
	www.online-literature.com /maupassant (372 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Maupassant, Guy de
		Maupassant was born at the château de Miromesnil, administrative district of Tourville-sur-Arques, Normandy, on 5 August 1850.
		Maupassant's only response to this vision of the world is aesthetic: to view it with indifference and wry detachment, and fashion stories from the curious incidents that it throws up.
		Maupassant's production of stories peaked in 1882-1884, with some sixty tales a year, in addition to journalistic pieces on topical affairs, expressing vigorously his views on women, war, colonial exploitation, and the corruption of public life: several of these pieces were worked into his three volumes of travel writing.
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	Fiction: Guy de Maupassant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893) was born in Normandy, the son of a wealthy stockbroker.
		In 1880 Maupassant caused a sensation with the publication of his story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat"), a dramatic account of prostitution and bourgeois hypocrisy.
		Along with his younger contemporary Anton Chekhov, Maupassant is responsible for technical advances that moved the short story toward an austerity that has marked it ever since.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/maupassant.htm (220 words)

	de Maupassant, Guy - Original Short Stories, Volume 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maupassant's most upsetting horror story, "Le Horla" (1887) (not to be confused with another of Maupassant's stories called "The Trip of Le Horla", which is about a hot air balloon), was about vampire-like ghouls, madness and suicide.
		Maupassant had suffered from syphilis since his 20's, which caused him neurological and mental problem in his later years, and which undoubtedly accounts for his shortened lifespan.
		Maupassant's style has been imitated by countless writers, and his influence can be seen on such masters of the short story as W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry.
	www.classicallibrary.org /maupassant (717 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Guy de Maupassant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born at Fécamp in Normandy (Normandie) of cultured, middle-class parents, Maupassant was a mediocre student who preferred swimming, boating, and fishing at Etretat, then a newly fashionable resort on the English Channel, to school.
		Soon Maupassant was a member of the naturalist group, and his story “Boule de suif” (“Ball of Fat”) was published in their Les Soirées de Médan (The Parties at Medan, 1880), a collection of stories about the Franco-Prussian War.
		Maupassant became an overnight celebrity and soon was surpassed only by Zola as the best-selling author in France.
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	Guy de Maupassant
		Maupassant took the subjects for his pessimistic stories and novels chiefly from the Norman peasant life, the Franco-Prussian War, the behavior of the bourgeoisie, and the fashionable life of Paris.
		Maupassant describes two caretakers, living in the French Alps in an remote inn, which is surrounded by snow six months and unreachable.
		On January 2, in 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Dr. Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died next year.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.105 (1505 words)

	Guy de Maupassant - La maladie, le désespoir, la folie (1890-1893)
		Maupassant a souffert de la maladie une grande partie de sa vie.
		Maupassant a décidé de mettre fin à ses jours.
		Maupassant est enterré le 8, après une cérémonie à l'église St.Pierre de Chaillot, au cimetière Montparnasse en présence de Zola qui lui rend un dernier hommage.
	pierle.ifrance.com /maup/maladie.htm (860 words)

	Guy de Maupassant
		His maternal grandfather was Gustave Flaubert's godfather, and Guy de Maupassant became friends with Flaubert, as well as with Émile Zola, sharing their religious skepticism.
		Maupassant adopted Flaubert's ardor for exactness and accuracy of observations, and precision of style.
		Maupassant's mind began to fail in 1891 and, after a suicide attempt, he spent the last eighteen months of his life in an asylum in Paris.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0805almanac.htm (570 words)

	Similar Lives, Different Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In The Jewelry, Maupassant also seems to reminisce about his prior rich and exclusive life: “...she would roll the pearls of the necklaces between her fingers...you would swear it was real jewelry.”...
		Maupassant suffered from “incessant headaches, alleviated by the use of ether, led to hallucinations and an ultimate mental breakdown.” (Bede).
		Maupassant was empathetic and saw the sadness in the human condition in other people: “Between Maupassant and his province, however, there remained an unbroken affinity.
	www.akashanpathways.com /maupassant_poe.htm (1569 words)

	Remembering Maupassant \| Arts and Entertainment \| BBC World Service
		At school Maupassant was a good student and in 1869 he started to study law in Paris.
		Maupassant did what he was told, but the strain of working by day, writing at night and coping with his mother’s stream of illnesses began to take its toll.
		Although Maupassant’s literary career probably only lasted for about ten years, he was extremely successful.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/arts/highlights/000808_maupassant.shtml (1169 words)

	Maupassant
		Maupassant compose pour le théâtre, publie poèmes et contes sous le pseudonyme de Guy de Valmont, mais sans succès.
		Maupassant est éprouvé par le décès de son maître.
		Maupassant a la charge de sa mère et de la femme et la fille de son frère.
	www3.sympatico.ca /codan/Personnages/Maupassant.htm (640 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Le Horla [The Horla]
		Although Maupassant himself eventually succumbed to general paralysis of the insane as the result of tertiary syphilis, his tales of madness are not in any meaningful sense autobiographical.
		And like many others, Maupassant showed an interest in hypnotism and was aware of the possibility of life on other planets, popularised by works by Camille Flammarion (1862, 1877), and reinforced by the discovery of “canali” (misleadingly translated as “canals” rather than “channels”) on Mars by Schiaparelli (1877).
		More usually, however, Maupassant chooses from the wide range of mental disturbances only a certain type of character: his madmen (and nearly all are men) are coherent, convinced, and offer a radically different or challenging view of reality.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12358 (1396 words)

	Kate Chopin as Feminist: Subverting the French Androcentric Influence
		Maupassant undoubtedly provided inspiration for her own creative spirit, his themes and techniques being clearly evident in her work but "...with her independent spirit and her personal views she stood entirely on her own" (p.129).
		Chopin intended to bring together in publication the first six of her Maupassant translations and the proposed title for this collection is very telling in terms of where her interests lay at the time.
		She writes from within the bounds of traditional literary conventions that Maupassant can be seen to represent, but the resultant text, at least as seen in "Her Letters", stands as an assertion of difference from these conventions, and a challenge to them, just as Papke suggests every "feminist" text should (p.6).
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol2no3/chopin.html (4234 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I do hope, however, that Maupassant was not as big of a cad as Georges Duroy because this character may be one of the biggest jerks in the history of literature.
		Maupassant has a way of conveying the moods of the book to the reader that you'll pant for more in the end.
		Maupassant's writing is, for the most part, smooth and affective, although the actual word usage does not often venture into flowery passages or philosophical musings, but when it does, it is certainly worthy.
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	THE DIARY OF A MADMAN:The Horror Stories of Guy de Maupassant by G.W. Thomas
		The stories in de Maupassant’s first nine volumes often speak of insanity, and it becomes clear that the author had a fascination with mental illness that grew with time, for lunacy is often used by de Maupassant as a plot devise.
		Not happy to end the story there, de Maupassant adds a coda to the tale, a condemnation of women’s fashions, with a coquettish beauty in a saloon whose children are hunchback because she insists on being trim.
		De Maupassant is careful, even in these stories, to keep the monsters hidden, either by only suggesting what has happened, leaving the rest to the reader, or by weakly explaining them as the symptoms of insanity.
	www.gdarkness.com /madman.html (1587 words)

	LeHorla: transforming the alien
		Maupassant's story appeared about the same time as some of the earliest reports of SP in the medical literature (e.g., Mitchell, 1876) and details of his account are remarkably consistent with current descriptions of SP (Hufford, 1982; Hishikawa, 1976).
		Maupassant's aliens arrive at the very beginning of his story (although this is not at all evident, at the time, to either the reader or the protagonist) in “a magnificent Brazilian three-master, completely white, wonderfully clean and shining” (Maupassant, 1988, p.
		Several of Maupassant's short stories refer frequently to Mesmer and the notion of "animal magnetism." The analogy to the effect of magnetism on the "will" of iron bars was already an old and scientifically discredited idea by the time of Maupassant.
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	Encyclopedia: Guy de Maupassant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Boule de Suif is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant.
		As a stylish writer with a huge popular appeal he may be compared to Georges Simenon.
		The Necklace is a short story by Guy de Maupassant, first published in 1884 in the french newspaper Le Gaulois.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guy-de-Maupassant (2435 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Selected Short Stories (Classics S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This story exemplifies one of the main reasons the stories of Guy De Maupassant are so popular, in addition to his creative techniques and writing expertise, he contrasts certain extremes of human behavior to make a very strong point which emphasizes the human condition most accurately.
		As a finishing note, if you find Maupassant's stories depressing, remember that his stories are nothing but a reflection of life, and so it is this life which lacks of positiveness, not this author, a thought which is difficult to swallow, and harder to admit.
		Maupassant is definatly a "people" writer- the humanity he observes leaps off the page.
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	A Paper on Guy de Maupassant’s short story The Necklace
		Maupassant takes this Cinderella story, puts it in a more believable Third Republic setting, and, by making Mathilde slightly less perfect then the improbable Cinderella, he makes Mathilde a more sympathetic and realistic character.
		In the first sentence of the story is "She was one of those pretty and charming women, born, as if by an error of destiny, into a family of clerks and copyists." She deserved more, unlike her husband and most others, she was one of those rare human beings capable of enjoying life’s finer pleasures.
		Maupassant delights in melting her wings, and then cheapens her fall with his "ironic twist" at the end.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/2308/necklace.html (735 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maupassant was considered shocking a hundred years ago because he wrote about prostitutes and adultery in frank and unashamed terms.
		Maupassant wrote in the late 1800s, when Mark Twain and O. Henry were writing humorous and thoughtful short stories in the U.S. In style and quality, he is closer to the simple homilies and narrow scenery of O.Henry than the pointed wit of Twain.
		Maupassant's stories are often set in his native Normandy in northern France and populated with greedy and cunning peasants, whom Maupassant portrays alternately with affection or disdain.
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	Guy de Maupassant - World's Greatest Classic Books
		A man of arms and a man of letters, Maupassant was a French short-story writer and novelist known for his naturalistic treatment of his subject matter.
		Although the separation of his parents when he was eleven was traumatic, it began his close association with the great French writer Flaubert, a close friend of his uncle.
		Pierre et Jean that he was a complete literary naturalist, approaching his material with objectivity and detachment, describing life with utter frankness, and reflecting a personal conception of a deterministic universe.
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	Guy de Maupassant's "Mademoiselle Fifi"
		On the surface, Guy de Maupassant's "Mademoiselle Fifi" reflects the same world as "Boule de Suif" in its focus on prostitutes and Prussians, but the symbolism in "Mademoiselle Fifi" seems more provocative; there is more going on under the surface.
		He has been given that nickname because, Maupassant tells us, of his "dandified style and small waist, which looked as if he wore stays, from his pale face, on which his budding mustache scarcely showed" and from his affected habit of using a French expression to indicate contempt.
		Maupassant notes, however, that Fifi has a reputation of being "proud and brutal toward men, harsh toward prisoners, and very violent." Despite the fact that the French are the enemy, the group of officers to which Fifi belongs have decided to import some French prostitutes to help them pass the hours.
	www.storybites.com /demaupassantfifi.htm (468 words)

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